David Gibson wrote:
I do research on micro-interaction and am advising an undergraduate senior thesis on the topic of email communication -- specifically, on the opportunities and challenges that define email as partially distinct from face-to-face communication. She's having some predictable trouble getting undergrads to share their email, and I'm looking around for other email corpora that she might use. She's especially interested in comparing formal-organizational with informal messages. Any leads are appreciated; please be sure to send or cc responses to me directly as I'm not a subscriber to this listserve.
David, I'm in a similar boat - I'm doing research on finding expertise in communities (organisational CoP as well as CoI) by mining email. I'm trying to get my organisational (it's a research-based company) colleagues to give me access. Unfortunately, I need to know the names of people (for anaphora resolution) so cannot just work on a corpus in which the names are turned into MD5 hashes or something similar. I'd also be interested in any "standard" corpus, or even non-standard but freely available! Robert PS. pertinent publications are available at http://www.dstc.edu.au/Research/Projects/Infoeco/publications/ -- Robert McArthur CRC for Enterprise Distributed System Technology BSc(Hons) Ph. +61 7 3365 4310 Brisbane, Australia MInfTech Fax +61 7 3365 4311 Grad.Cert.Ed. mcarthur@dstc.edu.au